Privacy Policy
We at United Sodas highly value our customers and take your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy explains our practices and how personal information is collected, used, and shared when customers visit or make a purchase from unitedsodas.com (the “Site”).
By using our Site, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy.
Information We Collect
While using our site, you may provide us with certain personal data that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personal Data we collect in accordance with the law may include, but is not limited to:
- When you create an account or sign up for marketing information, we’ll collect your first and last name, plus your email.
- When you make a purchase, we’ll collect your first name, last name, company, billing and shipping addresses and phone number.
- We’ll also capture your financial information via Shopify’s payment capture (such as google pay, amazon, shopify) or also a recharge payment capture (stripe).
Information Collected Automatically
Like many sites, we and our third-party service providers, such as advertising and analytics providers, use cookies, web beacons and other data technologies to receive and store certain types of information when you interact with us through your computer or mobile device. This automatically-collected “Device Information” includes information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. Using these technologies helps us recognize you, customize your experience and make relevant marketing messages.
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Personal Data and Device Information.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use the Personal Data that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Personal Data to:
- Deliver and provide customer support on the product or service you requested or purchased from us. This may include transactional emails such as receipts, shipping information, and follow up survey or communications
- Analyze our product and services, as well as the sites, and to perform audits, security and fraud monitoring and prevention.
- Develop new products, enhance, improve or modify our existing product, identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, and to operate our business.
- Fulfill other purposes for which you provide your Personal Data
- Provide you with information, products or services that you request from us
- Provide information on other products which we feel may be of interest to you or that you asked us to send to you
- Notify you about any changes to our sites, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service.
- Conduct surveys or promotions
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns). Please see the following section for more specifics.
Use Of Cookies And Similar Technologies
Our Site may use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and similar digital tracking technologies. Cookies are small data files that are transferred to your hard drive when you visit a website if your browser settings permit the acceptance of cookies. Cookies may enable us to recognize your computer, store your preferences and settings, enhance your user experience by delivering Content specific to your interests, perform searches and analytics, and assist with security administrative functions. We may also use automated technologies to collect and analyze other non-Personal Information related to the devices you use to access the Sites, such as IP addresses, browser types, browser language, unique device identifiers, and other information about your computer(s) and/or mobile device(s). Some tracking technologies may track your activities not only on our Sites, but on third party sites you visit after you leave our Sites, and some services may aggregate this information collected from many sites into a single profile. If you have any questions about cookies you can find out more about cookies here.
Our Site may use Google Analytics or similar tools or services to collect information about the performance and use of our Site. Our analytics services may collect information such as how often users visit our Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our Site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics and other providers to improve our Site and your overall experience with United Sodas. Although Google Analytics places persistent cookies on your computer to identify how users arrived at a site and the number of times they return, the cookies are not intended for use by anyone but Google to provide analytics to us. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Site is restricted by Google’s policies. You may be able to prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to the Sites by disabling cookies on your browser. To learn more about, or to opt-out of Google’s analytic and marketing services, visit Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Google Privacy Policy, or Google Analytics Opt-out.
Additionally, our Site uses cookies for retargeting online advertisements. As advertisers on Facebook and through our Facebook page, we, (not Facebook) may collect content or information from a Facebook user and such information may be used in the same manner specified in this Privacy Policy. You consent to our collection of such information.
We abide by Facebook’s Data Use Restrictions. Any ad data collected, received or derived from our Facebook ad (“Facebook advertising data”) is only shared with someone acting on our behalf, such as our service provider. We are responsible for ensuring that our service providers protect any Facebook advertising data or any other information obtained from us, limit our use of all of that information, and keep it confidential and secure.
We do not use Facebook advertising data for any purpose (including retargeting, commingling data across multiple advertisers’ campaigns, or allowing piggybacking or redirecting with tags), except on an aggregate and anonymous basis (unless authorized by Facebook) and only to assess the performance and effectiveness of our Facebook advertising campaigns. We do not use Facebook advertising data, including the targeting criteria for a Facebook ad, to build, append to, edit, influence, or augment user profiles, including profiles associated with any mobile device identifier or other unique identifier that identifies any particular user, browser, computer or device. We do not transfer any Facebook advertising data (including anonymous, aggregate, or derived data) to any ad network, ad exchange, data broker or other advertising or monetization related service. For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data Policy.
Sharing Your Personal Information
We only share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as indicated within this policy or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your Personal Information shared. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Contests And Sweepstakes
We may operate contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions (collectively, “Promotions”) through our Sites, which may require registration on our Sites or through our social media channels in order to enter. Your Personal Information may be used by us to contact you for winner notification, prize delivery confirmation, or other promotional purposes. Your entry may also result in your being added to our marketing lists. If you win a Promotion, your acceptance of a prize may require you (unless prohibited by law) to allow us to post publicly some of your Personal Information on our Site or elsewhere, such as on a winner’s page. Information gathered from you in connection with Promotions will be used and disclosed in accordance with this Privacy Policy, unless the privacy rules for a particular Promotion differ. Please read this Privacy Policy and the privacy rules for any particular Promotion carefully.
United Sodas may disclose your Personal Information in connection with any Promotion, for example, to third party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests and other promotions, to provide lists of the names of winners and/or to announce the names of winners on the Site, on social media platforms (e.g., on our Facebook or Instagram pages), or otherwise, in accordance with the rules applicable to the particular Promotion.
SMS/MMS Mobile Messaging Marketing Program
We may use your telephone number for the purpose of sending you SMS messaging related to marketing messages, order and shipping confirmations, and other order updates if you have opted in to receive such messaging. You may opt-out from receiving SMS messaging from us, at any time, by responding STOP to any of our messages. Messaging will be sent by an automated system initiated by our third party messaging provider. We do not share your telephone number with third parties for the purposes of receiving third party marketing messages. We also will not send messages to you promoting the goods or services of third parties. For additional information regarding our SMS messaging program, please read our Terms of Service or by responding HELP to any of our messages, or by emailing our Customer Service team at hello@unitedsodas.com
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect on January 1, 2020, and is intended to protect the data of California residents. If you are a resident of California, you have certain rights with respect to your data. We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us by sending an email to hello@unitedsodas.com or by mail at United Sodas of America Inc., 247 Water St Floor #5, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Rights that you may have, include:
- Requesting deletion of your information.
- If you request that your account be deleted, you will lose access to all of our programs in which you are actively registered.
- Opting out from the sale of your information to third parties.
- Requesting disclosure of the Personal Information we have collected about you and the types of third parties with whom it has been shared.
- Requesting the portability of your information.
- Opting out from receiving marketing communications that we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. Additionally, you may update your email preferences by changing the settings in your account.
- Requesting that we not sell your information, by clicking on the corresponding link on our website.
Every effort will be made to respond to a verified request within a reasonable time, or the time-frame required by law.
This Privacy Policy is strictly limited to the Program and has no effect on any other privacy policy(ies) that may govern the relationship between you and Us in other contexts.
Third Party Links
We may have links on our site to other sites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be taken directly to that site which is governed by its own privacy notice. We strongly encourage you to read that privacy notice. We do not control that site and assume no responsibility for the content, policies or its practices.
Do Not Track
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
Your Rights
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access Personal Information we hold about you and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
Data Retention
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to meet our business purposes unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
This site is operated in and directed to those in the United States. If you are located in another jurisdiction, please know that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. It is important to note that the privacy laws in the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in other countries such as the European Union.
We require that our service providers use appropriate safeguards to transfer your Personal Data to the United States. Data that is provided to us is stored on our or our third party’s secure servers. Details relating to any transactions entered into via our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety.
Minors
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. If you learn that your minor child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please contact us.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. If we should make changes to this policy, we will post the updates to this page on our Site.
Limitation Of Liability
By providing us with any Personal Information, you expressly and unconditionally release and hold harmless United Sodas and affiliates and their respective assigns, directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the use and/or misuse of your collected Personal Information. In addition, while we take reasonable steps to prevent third party companies from making unauthorized use of your Personal Information, we cannot be held liable for any injuries, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the use and/or misuse of your collected Personal Information by those third parties.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or requests, please contact us by e‑mail at hello@unitedsodas.com or by mail using the details provided below:
United Sodas of America
[Re: Privacy Compliance Officer]
United Sodas of America, Inc, 100 Wall St., Floor #10, New York, NY 10005, United States
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 1, 2024.